Adverse conditions call for a certain risk strategy, and Celtic FC Women rose to that challenge on Wednesday night on their trip to Springburn to play Glasgow City, as the Ghirls not only came back from a goal down but also weathered the bulk of the game with only 10 players in order to seal a point in a 1-1 draw. Chloe Craig received her marching orders in the 42nd minute for a last-player challenge, making Celtic’s mission even more difficult, but manager Grant Scott was delighted with the way his charges reacted to the task in hand. He said following a testing 90 minutes: “First and foremost, we came here to win and got ourselves in a tricky spot going behind but had a great reaction trying to get back into the game. “And having a player sent off in the first half, it’s a long road then to secure some kind of win. ‘But I think the bare minimum we could do was show the character that we did to hold out and still create a few chances when we got opportunities to do so.’ “So, overall, I was thoroughly impressed with the performance and the character shown by the girls.” The Ghirls wore their resilience as well as their hearts on their sleeves in the 1-1 draw with City, and Scott instilled the need for that following defeats to Hearts, Rangers and Hibernian. The manager said: “I’ve said a few times now internally to the players that we’ve kind of questioned that resilience in the last few weeks, probably the last three performances, the two preceding the last one especially. “But I think it just shows that when you are together as a group, you set your stall out to work hard, you represent yourself properly, you represent your badge and your club as well as we did, and that’s all we can ask at that stage with 10 players against a very good opponent.”He added: “I thought organisationally we were good, the girls really bought into the change in shape when we lost the player. “And, unfortunately with Craigy getting sent off, we’ve had to be a little bit dogged, a little bit disciplined in our work and be very careful of the moments that we chose to push forward, and I thought the players did excellently, so we’ll take lots of that away.” The league draw was only the first instalment of a double-header against Leeanne Ross’ City side with the Scottish Cup semi-final against the same opponents at Hampden this Saturday. Scott said: “We know Glasgow City well enough and they know us well enough. It will be another tight one potentially. “I think if one of us gets our nose in front and starts to play, then you can see a team certainly stretch the game and it becomes not as close as we all expect. “But you can see how evenly matched we are. They are still a very good team, and I believe we have the makings of a very good team. “So, we will go into it positively, it’s knock-out football and I’d love to take us to a final, and I’m sure Leanne Ross would say the same about her side. “But we’ve not been to one this season, so it’s maybe more on us to try and make it, but I think that should be in you as a player. “This group, as I say, represent this club and we should be aiming for those kinds of finals, competing at the top end if we can. “We’ve not quite made it in the league certainly this year, but we’ve got another chance on the weekend to do something decent.”FixturesGlasgow City Women Vs. Celtic Women – Wed, Apr 29th 2026, 19:00FixturesCeltic FC Women Vs. Glasgow City Women – Sat, May 2nd 2026, 17:10
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